Noel Pearson has accused the ABC of racism in dwelling on indigenous alienation. But many advances in the status of Aboriginal Australians have been prompted by revealing ill-treatment, which is why Ms Dhu's family want footage of her last hours made public.

There's a concern that images posted on social media run the risk of disrupting the accurate identification of people allegedly involved in a crime.

‘Everything is sharply defined; we can even count his freckles.’
Detail of Diane Arbus, Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N.Y.C., 1967. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia August 8, 2016

BBC One's The Living and the Dead revels in the Victorians' obsession with the supernatural and the limits of science.

Photos of beaming young asylum-seekers with their families aboard HMAS Adelaide in October 2001 told a completely different story to the government’s spurious ‘children overboard’ claims.
Courtesy Project SafeCom, Jack H Smit.July 28, 2016

Images move us to act – as last week's episode of Four Corners has shown. Our government has gone to great lengths to suppress photos that humanise asylum seekers – but when they seep out, empathy is aroused.

Jupiter and its moon Io really do look like they do in this latest image by NASA’s Juno probe.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSJuly 21, 2016